If you want to try Cuban dishes and don't want to spend a vacation there, you can usually just visit a Cuban restaurant. But why spend a lot of money when you can easily prepare many of the dishes yourself at home? If you have worked up an appetite and would like to surprise your partner with something exotic after a long day at work, you can use the following recipes for Cuban food and create a particularly pleasant evening.
What is typical Cuban food?
Due to historical eventsthe traditional dishesinfluenced by different regions of the world. Cuban cuisine is actually not exactly Cuban with its own specific characteristics, but rather an interesting mix of Spanish, African and Caribbean cuisine, with the latter having the least influence.
If you're now in the mood for Cuban specialties, you can find delicious recipe ideas below and try them out at any time. There are sauces, main courses, snacks and also desserts, so you can find something suitable for every occasion. And the recipes for Cuban food are anything but difficult, so even beginners can try one or two examples.
Eggplant croquettes
- 600 g eggplants
- 1 No
- 2 tbsp milk
- 100 g Flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 Cayennepfeffer socket
- Salt and pepper
- oil
Bring salted water to the boil in a pot. Wash the aubergines, peel them, cut them into cubes and cook them in water for 15 minutes until soft. Then puree with a hand blender. Now first stir in the egg, milk and spices, then mix the flour and baking powder together separately and also mix with the eggplant mixture. Put enough oil in a pot for deep frying or use a deep fryer. The croquettes should be able to swim in it. Let the oil get nice and hot and then drop the mixture into the oil a tablespoon at a time. Remove the eggplant croquettes as soon as they turn golden brown.
Tomato salsa as a dip for food from Cuba
- 1 root Paprika
- 300 ml pureed tomatoes
- 100 ml vegetable broth
- 2 spring onions
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 onion
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- fresh oregano
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp sugar
- Salt and pepper
For this recipe for Cuban food, first remove the seeds from the peppers. Chop the peppers, spring onions, onions and garlic. Heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the onion and garlic. Add the spring onions and peppers for another 5 minutes. Then add the tomatoes, cumin, vegetable stock, sugar and the finely chopped oregano and cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes. Stir occasionally. Finally, season with pepper and salt and store in a bottle or jar.
Rice with saffron, black beans and chicken
- 300 g Reis
- 150 g black beans (cooked from a can)
- 1 tin of saffron
- 2 large tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 1 root Paprika
- 1 green pepper
- 1 yellow pepper
- 2 large chicken breast fillets
- 4 EL Kill
- 2 tbsp vinegar
- Salt and pepper
If you're looking for a Cuban chicken recipe, this one is a great idea. To do this, first wash the rice under running water, then bring it to the boil in salted water (twice as much as the rice) together with the saffron, turn off the stove and let it soak for 20 minutes with the lid on. Chop tomatoes, peppers and onions. Brush chicken with oil, season and grill on a grill (approx. 5 to 7 minutes per side). Then mix the oil, vinegar, salt and pepper and add the vegetables and the chopped chicken. Drain the beans and in the meantime divide the rice into bowls, then distribute the beans over it and serve with the chicken sauce.
Cuban food with fish and banana
- 700 g Fischfilet
- 2 red peppers
- 2 Owner
- 8 small bananas
- 2 EL Mehl
- 1 TL Butter
- 2 onions
- 4 tbsp breadcrumbs
- 2 tbsp crumbled cornflakes
- 2 limes
- 3 stalks of coriander
- pepper and salt
Peel the peppers thinly with a vegetable peeler, then cut them into wide strips and fry them briefly in the pan. Then cut the fish fillet into strips or pieces and dust with flour. Mix the breadcrumbs and cornflakes together and then bread the fish with it (first in the eggs, then roll it in cornflakes breadcrumbs) and deep-fry it in the deep fryer at 180 degrees. To prevent the fish from getting cold, you can preheat the oven to 100 degrees in advance and store the fish there later while you prepare the rest.
Halve the peeled bananas lengthwise and fry in the butter. Meanwhile, cut the onions and one of the limes into rings and then quarter the lime. Only use the squeezed juice from the other lime. Chop the coriander finely and mix with lime pieces and juice.
Now mix the fish with the peppers and the fried bananas, stir in the onion rings and, after distributing it on plates, garnish everything with the lime mix.
Classic fish soup
- 400 g sea bream (2 pieces)
- 500g potatoes
- 300g pumpkin
- 150g onions
- 125 ml white wine
- 1.2 liters of water
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cumin
- 2 tsp hot paprika powder
- 1 EL Paradeismark
- 4 sprigs of thyme
- 30 g fresh coriander
- Salt
- olive oil
If you want to cook Cuban style and like fish, you can prepare a delicious soup. Spices are typical of Cuba, which is why they are not missing from this recipe for Cuban food.
Wash the fish and cut the peeled potatoes, onions and pumpkin into cubes. Heat olive oil in a pot and fry onions covered. Then add pumpkin and after a few minutes add the potatoes. Let these also sweat for 5 minutes, then season with cumin and salt and deglaze with the white wine. Now add the paprika powder and the tomatoes pulp to the pot, add the water and then the fish and the chopped thyme. After 20 minutes, the fish are removed, fins and heads removed and the meat cut into small pieces. The remaining soup is pureed, seasoned with salt and then garnished with the fish meat.
Cuban dessert – mango mousse
- 1ripe mango
- 300 ml Sahne
- 2 egg whites
- 2 1/2 EL Honig
- 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lime juice
Of course, none of the dishes are complete without a delicious Cuban food recipe for dessert. And this mango mousse is not only extremely quick and easy to make, but also tastes simply amazing.
First, puree the mango and add the honey and lime juice. Beat the cream into whipped cream and then fold it into the mango puree. In the same way, fold half of the egg whites into the mango mixture after you have beaten the egg whites until stiff. After stirring sufficiently, add the other half of the egg whites. You're done! You can also use a second mango to cut into pieces, which you can fold into the mousse or decorate the dessert with.
Recipes from eatsmarter, allrecipes and gusto.
